cseelye/linux-shell repository overview

⁠docker-linux-shell

Docker container for an interactive linux shell. I use this to have a standard command line environment that I can run on any host I am using.

Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/cseelye/linux-shell/⁠
Github: https://github.com/cseelye/docker-linux-shell⁠

Tags:
cseelye/linux-shell:latest (current 18.04 based image) Dockerfile⁠
cseelye/linux-shell:x11 (current image plus X11 support and some GUI apps) Dockerfile⁠
cseelye/linux-shell:xenial (older 16.04 based image) Dockerfile⁠
cseelye/linux-shell:xenial-x11 (older image plus X11) Dockerfile⁠

⁠Features

• Ubuntu 18.04 based shell with all of the standard GNU command line tools you expect (awk, sed, cut, etc.)
• Variety of tools such as build tools, SSH client, curl, wget, ping, traceroute, jq, ipmitool, vim, tar, pigz, etc.
• Docker client binaries, so you can control other containers (docker, docker-compose)
• Virt management tools (libvirt, virsh, virt-top, etc.)
• Optional X11 support, so you can run GUI apps (use the :x11 tag if you want this)

⁠Usage

The linux-shell script should be run on the host to launch a shell. The script will automatically mount the X11 and docker sockets, so those features work, as well as mount your home directory into the container.

When run, the script will start a new container and launch an interactive shell in it. Or if the --shared arg is used with the script, the script will attempt to find an existing container and exec a new interactive shell in it, or launch a new container if one is not running.

There are some environment variables that can tweak the script behavior:

• LINUX_SHELL_CONTAINER_NAME can be set to override the name prefix of the containers that are launched
• LINUX_SHELL_RUN_OPTIONS can be set to add additional options to the docker run command